Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.1° S, 0.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)
• Lower Carboniferous (Tuedian), Cementstone Group, Calciferous Sandstone Member
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by T.M. Owens in 1924; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153557: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Trachyscorpio squarrosus n. gen. n. sp.
Trachyscorpio squarrosus n. gen. n. sp. Kjellesvig-Waering 1986 scorpion BMNH In. 25985, 25984, 25986
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